{"id":2287,"date":"2019-10-06T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.202\/wordpress\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2019-10-06T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T22:26:18","slug":"it-now-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"It now begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started using Blender again, have to learn the 2.8 version which is much much much better than 2.79 but also very different, and I haven&#8217;t designed models in quite some time, so it&#8217;s a lot of effort, but I&#8217;m getting there.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, I created a seamless castle wall texture under Photoshop (tech 1), created all the derived maps in Materialize (tech 2), created a relatively low poly mesh for the wall in Blender (tech 3), imported all that stuff into UE4 and created a tesselated material from the maps in UE4 (tech 4).<br \/>\nTomorrow, I&#8217;ll put the mesh on a spline (tech 5) and if everything goes along the plan, I&#8217;ll be refining the mesh and creating the guard towers, gates and the like.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s many techs involved and a lot of work but that will build myself a huge amount of confidence which I badly need at the moment because I&#8217;m fully aware that I&#8217;m biting more than I can chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started using Blender again, have to learn the 2.8 version which is much much much better than 2.79 but also very different, and I haven&#8217;t designed models in quite some time, so it&#8217;s a lot of effort, but I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/?p=2287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myrdil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}